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Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way

Wesley Greene, photographs by Barbara Temple Lombardi

In 18th-century gardens, the broccoli was purple and cucumbers grew to 3 feet long.
Lime water controlled aphids, and a simple tile trapped slugs in the lettuce beds.
And melon seeds were improved by walking about with them in your pockets. In Vegetable
Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way, historic gardener Wesley Greene shares history
and folklore along with practical advice on growing vegetables herbs, garden tools,
and cultivation techniques. This is the ultimate organic gardening book - from a time
when organic was the only gardening.